Author: Candice Care-Unger

Hello there, dear friends! Welcome back to another instalment of Caring About Sex and Disability! Have you ever wondered how a hospital stay might impact your views on disability and sexuality? If you have, then do I have a blog for you! Recently, I decided to take a trip out of town to visit some …

July was Disability Pride Month! But that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate Disability Pride long after July is over. So, for this instalment of Caring About Sex and Disability, I wanted to explore some of the ways that YOU, whether you are disabled or not, can honour and celebrate Disability Pride every single day! Let’s …

Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader!  Well, hello dear reader. I have a bit of a story for you this blog, in order to set the scene. A few weeks ago, I had a session with my favourite sex worker. We were in the throes of our session; me in bed, …

Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader!  Welcome back, dear Reader! Last time we explored how the Disability Support Pension is inextricably tied to marriage rights in Australia. We learned that even if your paramour got down on bended knee at Taylor Swift’s Aussie Eras tour to ask you to take the …

Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability, dear reader!  I want you to imagine something for a minute.  Imagine that one of your clients has met their soulmate–that one true person that they want to spend the rest of their life with. Now imagine that they have been proposed to in one of the …

Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability. Over the past couple of years, discussions of consent have become a touchstone of the world around us. Pop onto any social justice followers Instagram or Twitter and it won’t take you long to see some version of “consent is sexy” on someone’s post. Funnily enough though, …

Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability. We talk about care in the disability space a lot, but one of the areas that we rarely talk about in the space is how we, as disabled folks, find, hire and keep good care staff.    What should you consider when recruiting?  What boundaries are good …

Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability. One of the hardest parts of dating while disabled is the act of disclosing our disabilities (and all that they may entail) to a prospective partner. I can tell you from experience how absolutely nerve-wracking it is to know that a partner is okay with you being …

Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability. Talking about sex can be awkward, uncomfortable and uneasy for so many of us. What do you say? How do you help someone feel good about themselves and help them honour their sexuality? If you are a practitioner or rehab professional trying to be supportive of a …

Welcome back to Caring About Sex and Disability with your fave disabled person on the internet, me, Andrew Gurza.  One of the things that is sorely lacking in our sex education today, is sex education that is geared towards disabled teenagers and disabled people in general. It is not something that is taught in schools …